Sgt. Bergdahl, An Intelligence Asset Endangered By Obama’s CIA Blunder?

Sgt. Bergdahl, An Intelligence Asset Endangered

By Obama’s CIA Blunder?

by Kit Daniels & SSG Joe Biggs | Infowars.com | June 2, 2014 Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was a five-year captive of the Talibanaligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan, may have been an intelligence operative whose cover was blown after the White House outed the CIA’s top intelligence official in the Islamic country by mistake.

Bergdahl, 28, was found by the Islamist insurgent group in the Paktika province of Afghanistan on June 30, 2009 after allegedly deserting his unit.

But considering that the Obama administration moved to secure his release barely a week after the White House accidentally revealed the head of CIA operations in Afghanistan, in addition to other strange circumstances, Bergdahl may have actually been an embedded intelligence asset who allowed himself to be captured in order to infiltrate the Haqqani network, yet was ultimately endangered by the Obama administration’s blunder.

The Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, said that the administration had to move quickly to save Bergdahl’s life but why would Bergdahl be in danger now more than ever during his previous five years of captivity?

The Obama administration has also showed more hospitality to the Bergdahl family than, say, the family of late SEAL Team Six member Michael Strange for example, which would indicate that the White House and the Bergdahls are close collaborators.

And it is very revealing that the administration made the unprecedented move to negotiate with terrorists by offering to release five al-Qaeda linked fighters in exchange for one alleged army deserter, which effectively sets a price for every captured American service member in the Middle East. This exchange is eerily similar to a “spy swap” between two countries.

On top of it all, Obama didn’t even bother to give Congress 30-day prior notice before the release of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners as required by law.

“My perception is he broke the law by not informing Congress 30 days before,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., told MSNBC. Recent statements by Bergdahl’s father – as well as his mannerisms – also suggest that Bergdahl was

trained by an intelligence agency to penetrate the Haqqani network under deep cover.

For one thing, it’s puzzling that Robert Bergdahl, Bergdahl’s father and an Idaho resident, can speak Pashto, one of the official languages of Afghanistan, considering that the State Dept.’s Foreign Service Institute considers Pashto one of the most difficult languages for an English-speaker to learn, especially without immersion in a native environment.

Both the FSI and the Pentagon’s Defense Language Institute are likely the two best sources for Pashto course material for native English speakers.

And just this past weekend a tweet sent from the account of Robert Bergdahl stated a desire to see all Guantánamo Bay detainees released:

Additionally, Robert Bergdahl tears up with joyous emotion when speaking about the Afghan people during interviews with the press. So it’s not entirely far-fetched to suggest that his statements and mannerisms are intended to give credibility to his son’s possible cover, and combined with the extreme political risk that Obama took to ensure the exchange, there’s no doubt that there’s more to this story than what’s been revealed by the government. But one thing is for certain: the White House has used this to successfully shift the media’s attention away from Obama’s mishandling of the recent Veterans Affairs scandal.

Sgt. Bergdahl Release Arranged by CIA Terror Group

by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | June 2, 2014

Crucial component omitted as war on manufactured terror gets fresh influx Missed in the growing storm over the Sgt. Bergdahl prisoner swap is the fact the terror group that arranged the trade was closely aligned with the CIA. The Haqqani network is a product of a collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI. Pakistan Army General Ashfaq Kayan referred to Haqqani as “a strategic asset.” Collaborative efforts between the two intelligence agencies resulted in the creation of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

The establishment media is characterizing the Haqqani Group as one of the most dangerous and vicious terrorist groups in the world. Omitted from coverage is the fact Afghan mujahideen leader Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani was a direct asset of the CIA in 1986 as the agency waged a covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

Unlike other mujahideen leaders who dealt with Pakistani intelligence, Haqqani worked directly with the CIA. He was an important intermediary in control of territory where Osama bin Laden would command Afghan Arabs and other radical Islamists recruited by the CIA to fight a proxy war against the Soviets. Bin Laden called Haqqani a “hero” and “one of the foremost leaders of the jihad against the Soviets.”

“Haqqani traveled frequently to Peshawar to meet with a Pakistani and, separately, with an American intelligence officer, and to pick up supplies,” writes author Steve Coll. So important was the work of Haqqani in Afghanistan, he allegedly visited the White House and met with then president Ronald Reagan who had inherited the covert war in Afghanistan from the Carter Administration and the war’s primary architect, national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Haqqani would later join the Taliban, another important CIA asset, and work as a government minister with the group ruling Afghanistan with an iron fist and sharia law.

Like the Haqqani Group, the Taliban was a Frankenstein monster created by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence. Its strategic creation was “actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA,” according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. “The Taliban are not just recruits from madrassas’ (Muslim theological schools) but are on the payroll of the ISI.” “There was always a question about whether Haqqani was really Taliban, because he hadn’t come out of Kandahar,” Coll told PBS in 2006, “he wasn’t part of the core group. And it was quite reasonable to believe after 9/11 that maybe he could be flipped.… [US officials] summoned him to Pakistan, and they had a series of meetings with him, the content of which is unknown.”

The elder Haqqani and his sons would later play an important role in extending and amplifying the engineered war on terror. “Today [Haqqani] has turned his expertise on American and NATO forces,” The New York Times reported on June 17, 2008. “From his base in northwestern Pakistan, the aging Maulavi Haqqani has maintained a decades-old association with Osama bin Laden and other Arabs.

Together with his son, Sirajuddin Haqqani, 34, he and these allies now share a common mission to again drive foreign forces from Afghanistan.”

The Sgt. Bergdahl trade will allow the neocons and their ideological allies to ramp up the flagging war on manufactured terror and claim the moral high ground.

“We do not negotiate with terrorists because in their willful targeting of the weak they embody evil, and because when you give in to evil, evil grows,” writes Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a military affairs fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a prominent neocon think tank linked to the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute.

In fact, as the hidden origins of international terrorism reveal, the United States not only negotiates with terrorists, it has created most terror groups. Once again, the establishment’s propaganda apparatus,

the CIA’s Mighty Wurlitzer, is in the process of refurbishing the casus belli that has extended the war on terror for more than a decade and will continue to do so provided the historical ignorance and political acquiescence of the American people.

Candy Crowley Presses Rice on Prisoner Exchange: 'Did U.S. Negotiate With Terrorists?'

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Afghans Say Taliban Prisoners Freed By U.S. Will Rejoin Battle

by Jessica Donati and Hamid Shalizi | Reuters | June 2, 2014

Men released were classified "high-risk" The release of five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a U.S. soldier has drawn criticism from some Afghans, who say the detainees are dangerous and will rekindle ties with terrorist networks to resume fighting, just as most foreign troops leave.

The men had been held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002 and were classed by the Pentagon as "high-risk" and "likely to pose a threat".

Two are also implicated in the murder of thousands of minority Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. military.

They were released in a swap with U.S. army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the sole American prisoner of war held in Afghanistan who was flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday.

"They will definitely go back to fight, if health-wise they are able to go," said a top official at Afghanistan's spy agency, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the topic.

"They will be very dangerous people, because they have connections with regional and international terror organizations around the world."

The Taliban denied the prisoners would return to battle but said the swap should not be regarded as a gesture of good will or a step towards the revival of peace talks between Islamist insurgents and the Afghan government.

"This is purely a negotiation between the Taliban and the Americans... It won't help the peace process in any way, because we don't believe in the peace process," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.

The prisoners would return to their families and live in Qatar - the Gulf emirate that brokered the exchange - where they would lead normal lives, he added.

LOOSE ENDS The prisoner swap comes just days after the United States announced plans to withdraw all but 9,800 troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and the rest by 2016.

Many senior Afghan officials and diplomats say the drawdown will happen much faster than expected and reflects a U.S. desire to disengage from Afghanistan as quickly as possible.

The prisoner swap is further evidence of U.S. efforts to tie up as many loose ends as possible before leaving, diplomats say.

"They have made a mess of things," said one Western diplomat, frustrated with the pace of the drawdown.

In a further reflection of the rupture in relations between the two countries, the United States did not inform President Hamid Karzai's government about the swap in advance.

His palace declined to comment.

On the streets of the capital Kabul many expressed anger at the decision to release the five men, a contrast with scenes of celebration in Bergdahl's home town in Idaho.

"This decision showed that the region, Afghanistan and its people aren’t worth anything to American government," said Gul Mohammad, a high school teacher.

"Otherwise, why would they swap a useless army soldier who broke the law with the five most dangerous Taliban fighters?"

Some among Afghanistan's security forces also expressed unease about the release, which comes as the Taliban's summer offensive gathers pace ahead of a second round of voting in the presidential election on June 14.

"This act will boost the Taliban's morale and encourage them to fight harder to capture foreign soldiers.

Now they are confident that their efforts won't be wasted," said army colonel Asadullah Samadi.

Could Obama Be Impeached Over Taliban Prisoner Swap? Republicans Claim Deal To Free Terrorists For Soldier Was Illegal The president ignored a law – which he signed last year – requiring him to notify Congress 30 days before releasing anyone from Guantanamo Bay The Obama administration never told Capitol Hill until after Bergdahl was in American custody and the US Taliban prisoners were preparing to leave A former federal prosecutor told MailOnline that while the 30-day-notice law is probably unconstitutional, putting enemy combatants back in a position to harm Americans is an impeachable offense A White House insider said Obama administration officials didn't anticipate how controversial Bergdahl's rescue would be, and compared it to the 1981 release of 52 US hostages in Iran Since Saturday several of Bergdahl's former military comrades have said he was an Army deserter, and some have speculated that he also aimed to join with the Taliban in Afghanistan An official Pentagon report concluded in 2010 that Bergdahl 'walked away,' so little effort was made to retrieve him, according to the AP Barack Obama broke a federal law that he signed just six months ago when he authorized the release of five high-ranking Taliban terror targets from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in exchange for the return of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, senior congressional Republicans claimed today.

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